Wednesday, October 22, 2008
6pm-7:15pm: -- Inaugural Reception, Art Building Patio
7:30pm: Screening: Souls without Borders: The Untold Story of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Art Building Auditorium, Art 132.
To be followed by Question & Answer session with co-director Anthony L. Geist, University of Washington
Thursday, October 23, 2008
8:30am: Coffee service
9:00am: Elena Cueto Asín, Bowdoin College:
“Guernika Arde/ Guernika en flames: union de montaje artístico y de historia y propaganda.”
Malcolm Compitello, University of Arizona:
“Structuring the Cinematographic Spaces of Multiculturalism: Lavapiés on Film.”
10:00am: Sound in Silence: Visualizing Sound in Early Spanish Cinema
Leigh Mercer, University of Washington:
“Making the Invisible Visible: The Body of Sound in Segundo de Chomón’s
El ladrón invisible”.
David George, Bates College:
“From Silent Page to Silent Screen: the Visualization of Sound in V. Blasco Ibañez’s Sangre y arena (1916)”.
Susan Larson, University of Kentucky:
“Creative Uses of Limited Sound in El misterio de la Puerta del Sol (1929).”
11:00am:
Patricia Hart, Purdue University:
“Gilles Orton, Pierre Gamet and James Will: Pioneers in Spain of Sound Ideas and Sound Practices.”
Eric Thau, University of Hawai’i at Manoa:
“Bien pagá: Popular Song in the Early Films of Pedro Almodóvar.”
12noon: Lunch
2:45pm:
Screening: Alatriste (2006). Dir. Agustín Díaz Yanes.
Moore Hall 119
Friday, October 24, 2008
8:30am: Coffee Service
9:00am:
Giovanna Urdangarain, Pacific Lutheran University:
“Víctimas y victimarios en documentales uruguayos post-dictatoriales.”
Eduardo Alfonso Caro, Phoenix Country Day School:
“Música, cámara, acción: Elementos (extra)diegéticos en Rosario Tijeras.”
10:00am:
Aranzazu Ascunce, University of Hawai’i at Manoa:
“Asfalto: Construyendo una nueva imagen de Madrid desde el punto de vista de un cineasta vasco.”
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Washington State University:
“Pedro Almodóvar, ‘dibujante’ de estampas: La religión como espectáculo en Entre tinieblas.”
Tyler Salvo, University of Hawai’i at Manoa:
“Amenábar y Hitchcock: Una visión del suspenso.”
11:00am
Linda C. Erlich, Case Western Reserve University:
“Nature as Music: Songs and Silence in Víctor Erice’s Films.”
12noon: Lunch
1:00pm:
Plenary Session
Kate McQuiston, Department of Music, University of Hawai’i at Manoa:
"If You Hear a Waltz, It's Already too Late."
2:30pm:
Screening: Azul oscuro, casi negro (2006). Dir. Daniel Sánchez Arévalo.
Moore Hall 111
List of participants
Professor Aránzazu Ascunce was raised in a bilingual and transcultural home by Cuban and Castilian parents. After completing her B.A. in Spanish and English literature at Duke University, Aránzazu worked for Univision, NBC and a public relations firm in Washington, D.C. Three years later, she attended the University of Virginia in pursuit of her Ph.D. in Spanish literature. With the assistance of a Fulbright, she completed her dissertation about the relationships between the poets, artists and the press of Barcelona and Madrid during the Historical Avant-Garde (1909 – 1929). Aránzazu also has directed numerous Spanish plays and currently teaches courses on modern and contemporary Spanish theater at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Malcolm Compitello is Head of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona and Executive Editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Culture Studies. He is finishing a book on space in Madrid.
Elena Cueto Asín works as Associate Professor of Spanish at Bowdoin College, Maine. She is the author of two books on modern Spanish theater Autos para siluetas de Valle-Inclán and Reconciliaciones en escena: El teatro de la guerra civil and co-editor of a volume on representations of history on Spanish TV. Her latest work deals with representations of Guernica in drama and film.
Linda Erlich is Associate Professor of Japanese, Comparative Literature and Cinema at Case Western Reserve University and editor of The Cinema of Victor Erice: An Open Window (expanded edition, 2008). She also writes about Japanese cinema.
David R. George, Jr. is Lecturer in Spanish at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. His research interests include Spanish realism, travel writing, historical fiction and film studies. He has published papers on various aspects of nineteenth-century Peninsular literature, and on the film and popular culture in the early twentieth century.
Susan Larson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky. She specializes in twentieth-century Spanish narrative (including film) and is currently interested in questions of modernity and the social and cultural implications of urban planning, particularly in Madrid. Recent publications include articles on avant-garde filmmaker Nemesio Sobrevila. Visualizing Spanish Modernity, a collection of essays co-edited with Eva Woods, and her book Constructing and Resisting Modernity: Madrid 1900-1936 will be in print in Spring of 2009.
Kate McQuiston earned her PhD in musicology at Columbia before coming to Hawaii in summer 2007. Her article "Value, Violence, and Music Recognized: A Clockwork Orange as Musicology" came out this year in the new collection Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy. She is working on a larger project on music in Kubrick's films as well as a textbook on film music. She serves as chair and as assistant professor of musicology in the music department.
Leigh Mercer is an Assistant Professor of 18th-20th century Spanish Literature at the University of Washington. In addition to finishing a book manuscript on the intersections of class, gender and public space in 19th-century Spain, she also currently has a project in the works on the experimental films of the early silent era and their impact on avant-garde filmmakers of the 1920s.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Washington State University. Her research interests bridge the fields of Literature, Philosophy, Social Sciences and Film Studies. She has published on Peninsular Spanish novel, short fiction, film and theater.
Tyler Salvo is a lecturer in Spanish at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. He received his MA in Spanish in 2007. He has published “Cubism and the Nivola” in the Proceedings of the 2007 Graduate Student Symposium of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at UH Manoa. He is a also a boat captain.
Eric Thau is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. His work encompasses contemporary Spanish literature, cultural studies and film. He is the coordinator of the University’s International Conference on Latin American & Iberian Cinemas and has published on Spanish film, including the work of Almodóvar, Erice and Trueba, and 20th-century narrative. He is currently researching a book on horror cinema in the Hispanic world.
Giovanna Undagarain is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Pacific Lutheran University. She received her BA in Literature Education in Montevideo, Uruguay and her MA and PhD in Hispanic Literature from Indiana University. Last July she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Bodies Lost, Bodies Recovered? Memory, History and Identity in the Post-Dictatorship Novel by Women Writers in the Southern Cone”.
